Anne Osbourn

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Anne Osbourn
FRS
Professor Anne Osbourn at the John Innes Centre in 2015
Born
Anne Elisabeth Osbourn
EducationBingley Grammar School
Alma materDurham University
University of Birmingham
Scientific career
FieldsNatural products
InstitutionsJohn Innes Centre
University of East Anglia
Sainsbury Laboratory
New Phytologist
ThesisHost adaptation and variation in septoria nodorum (1985)
Websitewww.jic.ac.uk/people/anne-osbourn

Anne Elisabeth Osbourn OBE FRS[1] is a professor of biology and group leader at the John Innes Centre,[2] where she investigates plant natural product biosynthesis. She discovered that in the plant genome, the genes involved with biosynthesis organise in clusters. She is also a popular science communicator, poet and is the founder of the Science, Art and Writing (SAW) Initiative.[3] She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.[4]

  1. ^ "Anne Osbourn - Royal Society". Royalsociety.org. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  2. ^ Anne Osbourn publications from Europe PubMed Central
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  4. ^ "2022 NAS Election".